Flailing. That’s the only way I can describe what Barnes & Noble is currently doing. It’s slashing prices on all its reader and tablet models and just this morning introduced a new video consumption app that can sit on top of both its own tablets and...

It's not easy being Nook. With Amazon Kindle's dominant share of the e-book market -- not to mention all of the exclusives Amazon is landing through its own publishing imprints and self-publishing platform -- the Barnes & Noble-owned subsidiary has s...

If you're rocking a Nook HD+, you're going to want to protect that glossy 9-inch display as best you can. We have found the 10 great cases available for the Barnes & Noble tablet. SEE ALSO: Ebooks or Printed Books: Which Are Better for You? Take a lo...

Are you a proud owner of a Nook HD? Then you'll want to protect -- and personalize it -- with a cool case. We have found 10 awesome options for owners of the 7-inch tablet. SEE ALSO: Ebooks or Printed Books: Which Are Better for You? Take a look thro...

The tough times aren't over yet for Barnes & Noble's Nook business. Barnes & Noble announced late Wednesday that it expects its Nook business to generate less than $3 billion in revenues and post a greater loss in the 2013 fiscal year than the $262 m...

Global tablet shipments reached a record of 52.5 million units in the fourth quarter of 2012, according to a new report. Jumping from 29.9 million units in the fourth quarter of 2011, the tablet market grew a staggering 75.3% year over year. It also ...

It's going to get even harder to find a bookstore to shop at in the next few years. Barnes & Noble, the world's largest bookstore, is planning to cut down the number of bricks-and-mortar locations it operates by as much as a third in the next 10 year...

If you think buying an ebook for your Nook is a one-time purchase, think again. A reader at The Consumerist said that when he tried to download an ebook he'd purchased months before through Barnes & Noble he was denied -- his credit card had since ex...

The 7-inch HD tablet market is bursting at the seams, but for most users, the buying decision comes down to which ecosystem you prefer. I’ve looked at virtually all the major devices and find most admirable-to-excellent. The Barnes & Noble Nook HD si...

For those who like to stay up late reading in bed and don't want to wake their partner -- or just like to read in dimly lit spots -- Amazon and Barnes & Noble have two backlit e-reader options that illuminate the screen and make the experience a whol...

Barnes & Noble just unveiled its latest entry into the tablet wars, the Nook HD+, and it has a lot going for it: a big HD screen, an expanding ecosystem that now includes video and a price that can't be beat. At least, not by its most obvious competi...

Barnes & Noble CEO William Lynch is gearing up for a very interesting holiday season. His company just unveiled two brand-new HD content-consumption tablets: the Nook HD and the Nook HD+. One of those products, the 9-inch Nook HD+ competes directly w...

Confirming its recent announcement about the possible Nook business spinoff, Barnes & Noble has entered a strategic partnership with Microsoft in a new Barnes & Noble subsidiary, focused on ebooks. The new company, which will marry B&N's digital and ...

Now that the Department of Justice is officially probing the alleged price-fixing conspiracy on ebooks between Apple and many of the major publishing houses, some clear winners and losers have begun to emerge. Winner Number One: Amazon, which said ea...

About half an hour before Amazon announced Q4 earnings, Barnes & Noble released a new statement saying it will not carry titles published by Amazon—including the Amazon titles that Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is selling in print—in its “store showrooms...

When I told people I was reviewing the Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet, the first thing they asked me was: “Is it better than the Amazon Kindle Fire?” The second thing they asked was, “Should I buy it instead of the Apple iPad?” To both questions, here's ...

Barnes & Noble launched a tablet reader on Monday. The Nook Tablet will rival other tablet readers on the market, including Amazon's newly launched Kindle Fire. The Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet, which will retail for $249 and arrive in stores at the en...

Hot on the heels of Amazon's announcement that the Kindle 3 is its bestselling product in history, Barnes & Noble is reporting today that its line of Nook e-readers are also hot items -- the biggest sellers in the retailer's 40-year lifespan. The new...

Bad news for everyone out there who was eager to hold the third edition of the Oxford English Dictionary (that exceedingly portable 20-volume set of wordy goodness): Thanks to the rise of the Internet, the next OED will probably be online-only. Grant...

Barnes & Noble has reported a loss of $62.5 million for its first fiscal quarter ending July 31, compared to a profit of $12.3 million the year before, and despite a 21% increase in year-over-year revenue to $1.4 billion. Unsurprisingly, sales at Bar...

The Wylie Agency has signed a deal to bring the e-book editions of 20 classic titles, including Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita and Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, exclusively to Amazon's Kindle Store for two years, the company announced Thursday. Publisher...

Nook for Android hit the Market for free download today, and it has some nifty features that make e-book reading easy and clean, even for someone who would much rather breathe in the dust of a library book than stare fixedly at her Droid X. A little ...

Before the Apple iPad stole the ebook media limelight with its iBookstore, the Barnes & Noble nook was the most eye-catching e-reader on the market thanks to its second color LCD screen. Although out of stock over the crucial Christmas period, Barnes...

According to Barron's, Barnes & Noble CEO Steve Riggo told analysts in a conference call today that the bookseller's recently launched Nook e-reader is its "single biggest-selling product." He said that the Nook has boosted B&N's online sales by 67% ...

Brick and mortar book retailer Barnes & Noble pushed hard to make a splashy entry into the digital book reading space this holiday season with the Nook -- perhaps too hard, according to the spate of reviews now coming in. From the sound of things, ma...

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